Houthis, who have been eager to engage with the US, respond to attacks with defiance

A protester in Sanaa, Yemen, with a poster of Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi during a rally against US and British airstrikes on Houthi targets. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA Yemen's Houthis have responded with defiance to Friday morning's United States-led air raids on multiple strategic sites in the north of the country in retaliation for the movement's disruption of shipping in the Red Sea. In mid-November the Iran-allied Houthis began drone and missile attacks on ships to exert pressure for a ceasefire in Israel's Gaza war. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said 73 strikes in five northern Yemeni regions killed five people…